How would the third-season episode "Jake of Hearts" have gone if Jake's father, Mad Dog Morgendorffer, were still alive? A twisted Daria/Tom shipper-fic from an alternate universe answers the question.

Daria Morgendorffer hears the story about Howard the duck (but not the one you are thinking of) in this third-season tale that explains why Trent Lane will not go into a bookstore. A little shipperiness and angst come with the humor.

In helping Sandi Griffin through a difficult situation, Quinn Morgendorffer must make a decision that could determine her own nature, for good or for evil-but which choice is the right one? Story rated R for language and controversial content.

Quinn Morgendorffer meets the man of her dreams, but the potential for nightmares is there, too, in this post-"Is It College Yet?" continuation of the second-season "Daria" episode, "That Was Then, This Is Dumb."

Sunday afternoons at the Kinsington Women's Correctional Facility are very slow, and one lone inmate has nothing to look forward to-until her only friend appears, and everything changes. Story rated R for language, violence, and sexual content.

A shipper-fic with a surprise. With two
failed relationships and three miserable years of
college behind her, Daria sits down to write a
difficult term paper. Then comes a knock at her
apartment door...

The annual faculty-vs.-DJ competition at
Lawndale High School gains a Wild West flavor when
mechanical bull riding becomes the death-sport of
choice. A third-season "Daria" comedy script (before
Tom), set during Daria's junior high-school year.

Daria, Jane, and the Fashion Club find
themselves on opposing teams in a nasty session of
volleyball-a first-season sequel, of sorts, to the
opening scenes from every "Daria" show in which Daria
screws up the game for Stacy and Tiffany.

The Cuban Missile Crisis boils over in
October 1962, and the lives of three young sisters
change forever. Helen, Rita, and Amy Barksdale star in
this tale of sibling bonds tested under the worst of
worst-case scenarios.

When Quinn Morgendorffer moves with her
family to Lawndale, she tells her new friends that she
is an only child-but she secretly suspects this was
not always so. Did she once have a big sister? What
happened to her? Where did she go? And was her sister
named...Daria?

Amy Barksdale and two girlfriends are in a
spot of trouble, with the fate of Earth at stake, in
this way-over-the-top crossover of "Daria," "Charlie's
Angels," Robert Heinlein's "Starship Troopers," the
USAF Space Command, and H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu
stories, if you will.

The author inserts himself and numerous
other Daria fans, particularly members of the
notorious IUF, into a lurid Daria fanfic, a
nightmarish tale of cartoon lust and horror. You won't
understand this unless you've read the IUF spam
threads on PPMB. No penguins were harmed in the
writing of this script. I swear.

After a disastrous experience in Central
America, Penny Lane returns to Lawndale, her life in
shambles-but with her is a dark souvenir that unravels
the lives of everyone around her in terrifying ways.

College freshmen Daria Morgendorffer and Tom
Sloane are together again, joyously happy and
blissfully in love-until the day she finds him in bed
with a small zoo and Tiffany Blum-Deckler. You'll
weep, you'll cry, you'll kiss ten minutes of your life
goodbye when you read this unofficial sequel to Mahna
Mahna's Daria/Tom shipper, "Everything Happens for a
Reason."

Compared to his intellectually and morally
challenged classmates at Lawndale High, Daria's
classmate "Mack" Mackenzie is almost superhuman. What
if he really was superhuman? Enter an alternate
universe in which Mack is not only too good to be
true, he's even better than that. What could possibly
go wrong for a straight-arrow guy who can do anything
and everything? Let us see.

Imagine "Daria" with a Y chromosome. What
might have happened if the eldest child of Jake and
Helen Morgendorffer had been born a boy? Here is an
alternate-history might-have-been, or a
parallel-universe might-yet-be, with all the fallout.

In this sequel to "Who Once Was Lost,"
twelve-year-old Daria Morgendorffer, the only human
known to have been kidnapped by aliens, tries to
return to a normal life in her new home in Lawndale.
Now younger than her sister Quinn, Daria finds fitting
into school again is tough-but the trouble has only
started. Someone is looking for her and will stop at
nothing to find her, and what will happen if she's
found, no one can say.

What did Daria see behind the attic door
that made her faint? Would you believe . . . another
Daria? Prepare for a long crossover journey into
strange but familiar Lawndales, drawn from
alternate-universe Daria fanfics by almost a dozen
authors!

Two little girls from Highland, Texas, go to
Camp Grizzly for several weeks of annoying summer fun.
Only one little girl comes home. Three years later,
the other little girl begins her long journey back-but
she discovers that the world has moved on without her.
Inspired by the fifth-season Daria episode, "Camp
Fear," "Who Once Was Lost" is the first tale in a
science-fiction series about a Daria displaced in
time.

Daria, Jane, Quinn, Stacy, Sandi, and other
students at Lawndale High struggle through a brutal
twenty-four-hour period of unforeseen challenges, in
this alternate-universe tale created from a list of
the "Top Ten Things That Never Happen in Daria
Fanfics" (with a few extra ideas thrown in).

The lives of Daria and Quinn Morgendorffer
and Jane Lane are caught up in the events of September
11, 2001, when Quinn flies to Boston to visit Daria
one weekend-then tries to fly home on that terrible
Tuesday morning.

The statue of a bearded man stands in
Lawndale's Village Green, but no one in town knows who
he is. When Daria is reluctantly goaded into
discovering the bearded man's his identity, she and
Jane uncover a bizarre ninety-year-old mystery that
leads them into extraordinary danger. This (slightly
AU) Daria fanfic is set in the "lost summer" between
Daria's sophomore and junior year at Lawndale High
School.

Investigative show hosts Daria Morgendorffer
and Jane Lane take their "Good Mornings with Daria and
Jane Show" to a Pacific island that houses a secret
government research base-and are caught up in a
nightmare that leads them farther from home than they
can imagine in this near-future science-fiction
adventure based on MTV's "Daria."

After ruining Jane's hair-dye job, Daria fears she has lost her best friend. Jane, for her part, fears Daria is trying to steal her boyfriend, Tom. Will everything work out for the best? And what does T. S. Eliot have to do with any of this? An alternate-history version of "Daria" episode #413, the way it should have been.

A decade after leaving high school, Daria and Quinn learn that their widowed mother, Helen Morgendorffer, has found someone special in her life...and it's Kevin Thompson. A sensitive and touching portrayal of mindless sex gone wrong.

Daria and Jane contemplate their future after high school, while Trent and Mystik Spiral hang out in the basement--but an artistic element has changed in the Lane household, in this alternate-world tale.

"Might be CIA," wrote Daria of her security-obsessed high-school principal, Angela Li. She was closer to the truth than she knew. Ms. Li reviews her turbulent life through the Cold War, to the time she took over "Laaawndale High," as she recovers from her breakdown in the fifth-season episode, "Fizz Ed."

After a lethal pandemic kills almost everyone alive, Jane Lane inherits the earth, but only from dawn to dusk. Cannibalistic ghouls in the billions arise after sunset, and Daria Morgendorffer is one of them. A horror tale inspired by Richard Matheson's classic novel of paranoia and vampirism, "I Am Legend" (later filmed as "The Omega Man").

What was happening behind the scenes of the Daria show? Were the show’s artistic and script-related mistakes truly “accidental”? Who was the show really about? Discover the shocking answers in this fantasy crossover tale about a teenage girl whose Neverland was her own home town: Lawndale.

A pink blossom grows from Kevin Thompson’s crutch at the end of the fourth-season episode, “A Tree Grows in Lawndale.” What happened after that? This horror-story sequel starts immediately following the blossom’s appearance, so its beginning is entirely in canon!

In an alternate universe, a lonely outcast named Daria moves from Highland to Lawndale . . . yet in the wake of a single change to the Dariaverse we know, disaster spreads. The one who could have prevented the horrors now cannot, and the avalanche of chaos widens to engulf everyone the outcast has known—unless someone takes a stand to stop it.

In the not-too-distant future, a funeral-home director in Montana struggles to defend her family and home from the End Times foretold in the Book of Revelation. The protagonist? A tormented, world-weary, thirty-something cynic named Daria.

There really was uranium in Highland’s water supply—and a new kind of Daria Morgendorffer is the result! Meet Daria the Faerie, the counterpart to Tinker-Jane of “Jane Unchained,” in this response to an Iron Chef fantasy challenge.

A sad example of what happens when a fanfic writer takes a well-known opening scene from another fanfic writer’s story and mucks it up, abusing other fanfic writers in the process. There ought to be a law. However, since there isn’t, you may as well read this.

On her way to see Tom Sloane, Daria Morgendorffer has a car wreck—but that’s only the start of her problems in this long, weird alternate-universe/crossover "Daria" tale of secret identities and super-powers that begins about halfway through “Boxing Daria” and heads into the wild blue.

What might "Daria" have been like if the show had taken place in 2007, ten years later than it did? And what if Daria had gone to an alternate high school back in Highland? One answer to those questions lies in this response to two fanfic challenges.

Quinn pulls a prank that causes Jake to think that Daria has taken up demon worship, and he takes Daria to a father-daughter seminar to bring her "back to the light." Add in a few former classmates, romance, and an unexpected twist--courtesy of Stephen King--and a very strange summer weekend gets underway in Lawndale.

Daria Morgendorffer awakens one morning from uneasy dreams to find herself transformed in her bed into a giant cockroach. Seriously. Well, not seriously, but a giant cockroach. We’re talking great literature. Based on it, I mean.

Thanks to shoddy fertility drugs, Quinn in this alternate-history tale becomes the oldest of a group of quintuplets--five same-age, genetically identical sisters, each with her own interests. The dramatic effects that this has on the Morgendorffers' life are revealed, with the equally
dramatic effects this new family arrangement has on Our Heroine, Daria. Based on an idea by Mike Yamiolkoski.

In this sensitive and insightful, though unofficial, continuation of Kara Wild's Driven Wild Universe, Amy and Joel separate after fighting over a trivial issue, as married couples usually do, and they and Daria, Jane, Quinn, Helen, Jake, Tom, and Brittany wander Lawndale in search of a plot involving thongs. BONUS! Features a new dramatic scene not seen before online!

The younger siblings and relatives of major "Daria" characters find themselves spending the summer at "Uncle" Timothy O'Neill's all-new Okay-to-Cry Corral, with none other than Wind Lane as their cabin counselor. There, the kids face the horrors of rice cakes and tofu for breakfast, therapy sessions to heal their inner selves, a legendary monster in the cooling pond of a nearby nuclear power plant, and--first love. Sam and Chris Griffin, Rachel Landon, Brian Taylor, Link, and Jane Lane's nephew and niece, Adrian and Courtney, appear in this novel-length tale. The action takes place after the events of "Is It College Yet?"

Wackiness aplenty takes place on the "Good Mornings with Daria and Jane Show," when Madame Tiffany the psychic accidentally causes the sun to go nova and destroy the earth. How will Daria and Jane cope with the loss of their core audience and network ratings, not to mention an astronomical catastrophe? Read on and find out! (Based on the future-ego shots at the end of Is It College Yet?)

Essay. It is possible with a little math work and careful study of Daria show scripts to work out the
approximate ages of Jane Lane's many siblings and the circumstances of their birth, feeding interesting
speculation about the Lane family's history and the sources of their interpersonal problems. More fanfic
about the Lane family is called for. This is the fourth version of this essay and includes much new
material.